Chunky Tomato Basil Soup Recipes

CHUNKY TOMATO SOUP

Steps:

• In a 5-quart saucepan or Dutch oven, melt butter over medium heat; add oil and onion, and season with salt and pepper. Cook until onion is translucent, about 5 minutes. Stir in flour and tomato paste; cook 1 minute.
• To saucepan, add thyme, broth, and tomatoes, breaking up tomatoes with your fingers. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer, 30 minutes. (Remove thyme sprigs before blending.)
• Using an immersion blender, puree soup in pot, leaving a fair amount of the tomatoes in chunks. Or, working in several batches, puree half (5 cups) of the soup in a conventional blender until smooth; return to pot. Season with salt and pepper. Serve immediately.

SWEET AND CHUNKY TOMATO SOUP

Steps:

• Place the red bell pepper and yellow bell pepper in a large pot with 1/4 teaspoon butter, and cook, stirring constantly, until peppers are slightly charred. Mix in tomatoes, onion, garlic, and chicken broth. Season with salt, sugar, cloves, oregano, and basil. Bring to a boil, and cook 20 minutes, until tomatoes are soft.
• Mix the milk and cornstarch in a small saucepan, and stir until smooth. Place saucepan over medium heat, and stir in remaining 1/2 teaspoon butter. Continue to cook and stir until thickened. Mix into the pot with vegetables.
• Strain about 1/2 the vegetables from the soup and transfer to a blender. Blend until smooth, and return to the pot. Bring soup to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer 5 minutes. Remove from heat, and let sit about 5 minutes before serving.

CHUNKY TOMATO SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in 5- to 6-quart Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Cook garlic, celery and carrots in oil 5 to 7 minutes, stirring frequently, until carrots are crisp-tender.
• Stir in tomatoes, breaking up tomatoes coarsely. Stir in water, basil, pepper and broth. Heat to boiling; reduce heat to low.
• Cover and simmer 1 hour, stirring occasionally.

CHUNKY TOMATO-BASIL BISQUE

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, saute the celery, onion and red pepper in butter for 5-6 minutes or until tender. Add tomatoes and tomato paste. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 40 minutes. , Remove from the heat. Stir in the basil, sugar, salt and pepper; cool slightly. Transfer half of the soup mixture to a blender. While processing, gradually add cream; process until pureed. Return to the pan; heat through (do not boil).

CHUNKY TOMATO BASIL SOUP

Steps:

• In a large pot, sauté the onion in the olive oil over medium heat until browned, about 10 to 12 minutes
• Add the garlic and sauté another 3 minutes
• While onion and garlic are sautéing, open your canned tomatoes and dice the whole tomatoes.
• Add the diced tomatoes and juices/tomato puree to the pot with the sauteed onion and garlic.
• Add the vegetable stock, chopped basil and butter. Stir until butter is melted and incorporated.
• Add the baking soda. This will cause the soup to bubble up quite a bit, so make sure your pot is big enough to hold a little momentary soup fizz. The bubbles/fizz will die down after a few seconds of stirring.
• Bring pot to a full boil then reduce the heat to a simmer and cook for 45 minutes.
• Optional: You can blend part or all of this soup for a smoother consistency, though I like it chunky.
• Serve with grated parmesan on top. Seriously. It's the bomb!

CHUNKY TOMATO-BASIL SOUP

Steps:

• In 3-quart saucepan, heat butter over medium-high heat. Add onion and carrots; cook and stir 3 to 4 minutes or until softened. Add flour; cook and stir until moistened. Gradually add half-and-half, cooking and stirring about 2 minutes or until smooth.
• Stir in remaining ingredients. Cover; cook over medium heat about 15 minutes, stirring frequently, just until mixture comes to a boil.
• If desired, top with additional chopped fresh basil leaves.

CHUNKY TOMATO SOUP

Steps:

• After dicing the onion and tomatoes (serrated knife works best) heat butter in a medium pan and saute onion until transparent (about 5 minutes).
• Add tomatoes, chicken broth, 1/3 cup dill, sugar, salt and pepper and bring to boil.
• Lower heat and simmer for 20 minutes.
• Serve hot.
• Ladle into soup bowls and top with spoonfull of yogurt.
• Sprinkle with remaining dill.

MAMU'S CHUNKY TOMATO BASIL BISQUE SOUP

Steps:

• Saute the veggies in butter and olive oil combo until softened. Add tomato ingredients and spices. Simmer for 3 to 6 hours. Adjust thickness with more chicken broth or tomatoes.
• About 5-10 minutes before serving, add the cream and cream cheese.

CHALET GIRL'S CHUNKY TOMATO AND BASIL SOUP

Steps:

• Finely chop onions. Melt butter in a large pan. Gently cook onions in butter until soft and translucent, low heat.
• Add the sugar and vinegar to slightly caramelise the onions, stir. Then add the flour. Cook flour out for 1-2mins stirring continuously.
• Add the tomatoes and stir to get any sticky bits off the bottom of the pan. Don't break up the tomatoes, leave whole. Add the stock cube and enough boiling water to give 'soupy' consistency (don't want it to be too runny). Bring soup to the boil then turn down and simmer for about 45mins/1hour.
• Add the basil (as much as you want or have, a few table spoons maybe). Stir well. Taste - add seasoning (salt and pepper) as required and more sugar if still slightly too acidic.
• For chunky soup, use a potato masher to break up the tomatoes, giving a chunky texture. Or, use a hand blender or put in liquidiser. You could blend all the soup or just part of it - however you like it!
• To serve, put the soup in a bowl and finish with a drizzle of cream in a circular motion to create a swirl (partly for appearance, but also tastes good with the soup) and add a sprig of basil. Delicious served with crusty bread or baguette.